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W. PRETTY, Jr.

EYELET TAPE.

No. 362,995 Patented May 1'7, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM PRETTY, JR, OF IPSVVIOH, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.

EYELEiT-TAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,995, dated May 17,1887.

Application filed July 2-2, i884. Serial No. 133,507.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM PRETTY, J r., a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, and a resident of Ipswich, Suffolk county, England,haveinvented certain new and useful. lm p rovements in Eyelet-Tapes, ofwhich the following is a specification. Y

My invention is an eyelet tape or binding for various purposes,consisting of a cont-inuous strip adapted to be cut into pieces ofvarying length, and having a body portion with eyelets inserted therein,and with two flaps at the edge adapted to be sewed or otherwise securedto another fabric or other article. The strip consists of a tape whichthroughout a part of its width is formed as a single fabric, while theremaining partis formed as two distinct fabrics or layers joinedtogether only at the line ofjunction with the single-fabric portion.

The tape may be made in any suitable way so as to form selvage edges.One portion,varying in width according to the width of the tape and thepurpose for which it is intended, is formed or woven as a thick singlefabric, and the other portion is formed or woveninto two completefabrics or plies connected together only where they meet and join to thesingle or thick fabric.

For the purpose of adding strength to the thick single portion of thetape or binding, it may be woven with a twill or corded, and extra cordsor warp-threads may be inserted therein. This portion is therebystrengthened, and furnishes a greater support for the eyelets orfastening devices that may be attached to or inserted therein.

One simple way of producing the tape is as follows: Two sets ofwarpthreads-an upper, 6, and lower, 7-are provided, and the weft orfilling thread or threads may be traced as running from the selvage onone side to the selvage on the outside of one of the single layers orplies and back again, interweaving part of the way with the upper andsome of the lower warpthreads, as indicated in Fig. 5, and the remainderof the way with the upper threads only, then again traversing the warpand interweaving with the under threads and some of the upper threadspart of the way,and with (No model.) Patented in England Januaryll.188i, No.126.

' the lower threads only the remainder of the way, thereby forming afabric part of which is double ply, as from lto 2, Fig. 5, and theremainder of which is divided into two single plies, as 2 to 3, and 2 to4.

At stated places in the thick portion each shoot of the weft may becaused to interweave with both sets of warp-threads, producing a thickband or cord running along the tape or binding from end to end.

\Vhen extra strength is desired,the whole of the thick portion may be sowoven, forming a series of parallel ribs or cords, and extra warpthreadsof larger size or greater number may be so woven, forming a very strongand firm corded portion. When the eyelets or other fastening devices areproperly inserted into or secured upon this portion,they are verysecurely held and are capable of resisting great wear and-strain.

This tape or binding may be applied to a great variety of uses, and isparticularly desirable as a binding for the bolting cloth or silk usedfor milling purposes, when the two thinner portions or plies may besecured to the edge of the cloth in any suitable manner, and the eyeletsor fastening-hooks being inserted into the thick portion form asubstantial means for stretching the cloth.

The tape or binding may also be used in the manufacture of corsets,waists, bustles, crinoline, &c., or, in fact, of anything that requiresa firm stay piece or edge, and especially where these edges are to belaced or drawn in any manner. It can be woven in continuous pieces ofany convenient length and cut to suit, the thinner layers or pliesfurnishing a convenient and substantial means of joining it to anyfabric or material desired.

Referring to the accon'ipanying drawings, forining a part of thisspecification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the tape.Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views, and Fig. 4 is a plan view. Fig. 5illustrates one mode of weaving the tape.

The thick portion of the tape A has a selvage, a, and the thinnerportion or plies, BO, preferably have selvage edges 1) c, and are joinedtogether and to the thicker portion on the line 0:. The eyelets D orfastening de vices E may be applied at any desired intervals and in anysuitable manner. In Fig. l the thick part is shown as woven withatwill,it, throughout the greater portion of its width, and with ribs or cordsc on eachside,while in Fig. 4 a series of ribs or cords, a, are shown.

In Fig. 5 the upper and lower warp-threads are indicated at 6 and 7,respectively, and the weft-thread at S 9. The part 8 of the weftthreadinterweaves with the upper warpthread, 6, for a distance, and then,traversing the warp, it interweaves with one of the lower warpihreads,7, and, returning, it again interwcaves with the threads 6, and so 011from 1 to 2. The part 9 of the weft'thread interweaves with thewarp-threads 6 and 7 in a like manner to the part 8, interweaving withthelower warpthread, 7, for a distance, and then traversing the warp andinterweaving with one of the warp-threads, 6, and returning and againinterweaving with the warpthrcads 7, and so on from 1 to 2. From 2 to 3the part S of the weft-th rcadinterweaveswith the warp-threads 6 only,forming the single ply O, and from 2 to 4 the part 9 of the weitthreadinterweaves with the warp-thread 7 only, forming the sin gle ply D.

I do not claim a woven strip having a thick body port-ion and with twooverlying edge flaps forming partof the strip and woven with the bodypart; and I am aware that such strips have been used in corsets.

I am also aware that strips of fabric have been folded roundcorset-steels and sewed. to cover the steel and leave two overlyingflaps,

through which eyelets have been passed; and I do not claim a striphaving edge flaps and eyelets.

My invention is distinguished from the things specified in the fact thatI provide a continuous strip with a series of eyelets sup ported by abody portion, and with two overlying flaps projecting from the edge ofthe strip, the same constituting a salable article adapted to be cutinto pieces of any desired length, and to be used for many purposes.

I elaiin- 1. As an article of manufacture, a eontinuous strip consistingof abody portion provided with a series of eyelets inserted therein atintervals throughout its length, and with two flaps, both joined to andextending from one edge, the whole woven as one integral fabric,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a continuous flexible woven stripconsisting of a body portion of double ply provided with longitudinalstrengtheningribs,and two single-ply flaps extending and both united tosaid edge and all woven together as one integral fabric, the bodyportion provided with a series of eyelets at intervals along its length,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM PRETTY, JR.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. llfIACDONALD, Henna \VARNER.

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